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Jul 30, 2023

The Top 10 highest grossing movies of 1998

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The Honorable Mentions are GOLD!

#10 Shakespeare in Love - $279,500,000
Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director - John Madden
An incredibly smart rom-com, which somehow walked away with the Best Picture Oscar
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#9 Lethal Weapon 4 - $285,400,000
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Jet Li
Director - Richard Donner
Riggs and Murtaugh are back... again. This time attempting to break a Chinese immigrant-smuggling ring.
#1998Top10
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#8 Doctor Dolittle - $294,156,605
Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wilson
Director - Betty Thomas
After a car crash, Doctor Dolittle finds he can understand and talk to animals.
#1998Top10
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The Sting

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Jul 23, 2023

The Top 10 highest grossing movies of 1996

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Was '96 the BIGGEST year for movies ever?

#10 Space Jam - $250,180,384
Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny
Director - Joe Pytka
The Looney Tunes employ Michael Jordan to beat aliens in a basketball game, obviously.
#1996Top10
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#9 Jerry Maguire - $273,552,592
Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr
Director - Cameron Crowe
After committing career suicide Jerry Maguire salvages a single client, footballer Rod Tilbrook, and assistant Dorothy Boyd.
#1996Top10
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#8 The Nutty Professor - $273,814,019
Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith
Director - Tom Shadyac
Obese biochemist Sherman Klump, manages to come up with a concoction that enables him to shed 300 pounds and all his inhibitions to become Buddy Love.
#1996Top10
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The Sting

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Jul 9, 2023

The Top 10 highest-grossing movies of 1992

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An absolutely packed year!

#10 Wayne's World - $183,097,323
Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Tia Carrere
Director - Penelope Spheeris
A comedy classic that changed the English language for a while.
#1992Top10
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#9 Bram Stoker's Dracula - $215,862,666
Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
Director - Francis Ford Coppola
Coppola got his teeth into this arty adaptation of the mother of all vampire tales. It's possibly the sexiest retelling of this gothic masterpiece.
#1992Top10
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#8 Sister Act - $231,600,000
Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy
Director - Emile Ardolino
A nightclub singer accidentally witnesses a murder and is disguised as a nun so she can hide in a nunnery until the time comes to testify.
#1992Top10
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The Sting

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Jul 2, 2023

The Top 10 highest-grossing movies of 1990

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#10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $202,000,000
Elias Koteas, Judith Hoag
Director - Steve Barron
The Heros In Halfshells' leader is kidnapped, and they make it their ninja mission to rescue him
#1990Top10
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#9 Kindergarten Cop - $202,000,000
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hunt
Director - Ivan Reitman
Arnie goes undercover as a primary teacher to track down the wife of a drug lord in this very large fish-out-of-water comedy.
#1990Top10
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#8 Presumed Innocent - $221,300,000
Harrison Ford, Bonnie Bedelia
Director - Alan J. Pakula
Deputy D.A Rusty Sabich (Ford) finds himself a murder suspect when his lover is found with her head stoved in by a hammer. But, is he innocent?
#1990Top10
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The Sting

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Jun 25, 2023

The Thing was released OTD in 1982, so here are 10 reasons why I love The Thing

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#1 The Opening Titles
I've always been fascinated by this burning opening title sequence. It was created by Peter Kuran with the help of a fish tank, a trash bag and a match. Simples.

#2 'Norweigian, Mac'

John Carpenter gave you the entire plot in the first scene, if you happen to speak Norwegian.
The man shooting at the dog says, 'Get the hell outta there. That’s not a dog, it’s some sort of thing! It’s imitating a dog, it isn’t real! Get away, you idiots!'

#3 Morricone

Ennio Morricone's score delivers a musical version of building dread. From the opening couple of chords to the very end, it's a musical score that suggests this isn't gonna end well, and it won't get any better than this.

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The Sting

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Jun 10, 2023

10 Reasons Why I Love Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

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1. The First scene.

The opening truck chase combines action and comedy set to a great soundtrack. It's literally the film you're about to watch in one scene.
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10 Reasons Why I Love Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

2. Casual Swearing

I was 13 when I saw BHC and I'd never heard casual swearing before. Listening to Eddie Murphy and Gil Hill (Inspector Todd) throwing F-bombs around was like hearing Shakespeare for the first time.
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10 Reasons Why I Love Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

3. The Soundtrack

Patti LaBelle's Stir It Up makes this sequence iconic. And Harold Faltermeyer's electronic score is instantly recognisable. It all works. The music in BHC is one of the characters.
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